Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; 304, [4] pages; Signed by Author
Publisher: Bompiani, 1983, Milano
ISBN: 8845209555

[Book #15643]

First Edition/First Printing, "I edizione Bompiani ottobre 1983", gilt-stamped red cloth in unread Fine condition in alike pictorial dustjacket. From the personal library of Eco bibliographer James Contursi. Contursi A024a. An uncommonly rare copy, signed by Umberto Eco directly on the title page ;

Articles and essays selected from Il costume di casa and Dalla periferia dell'impero which consisted of writings originally published in various periodicals. In the original Italian language. Parts ofSette Anni Di Desiderio were later translated into English and published in Faith in Fakes in England and Travels in Hyperreality in the US, together with elements from Sugli Specchi e Altri Saggi